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Today I finished an important draft for my time travel novel. It is tentatively called A Lady Out of Time, but Olivia Rivers- an awesome YA writer in my critique group- hates the name.

But I remember reading A Knight in Shining Armor and Outlander. That’s my basis for time travel books. So for me, the name seems right. Anyway I have not settled anything quite yet. The book is not done, but it’s like I climbed to the top of the mountain and realized the end of the range is in sight.

This may be surprising to you non-writers but most writers HATE Twilight.

When one spends their time writing, they develop grandiose ideas of what is good and what is bad. We adhere to rules that beloved authors routinely break and call them ‘exceptions,’ blindly plunging over the cliff to do what we are told like fat little lemmings.

Hello everyone in blogger land! I know it has been a while, but between Christmas and the new book coming out, I’ve been a bit swamped.

Every now and again I get an email from a fan and I wind up writing an incredibly long response and then I think to myself– ‘Self you should post this on your blog because it’s just possible that somebody might find it interesting or relevant.’ Let’s hope that’s true….

I’m going to abbreviate the question and then give you my response. If you have any questions, do let me know!!

I have been sick as a dog for the last five days. My daughter brought home a stomach bug from preschool and it tore through the house like the Black Death. In the morning people were fine, by the afternoon it was too late.

The only good thing about being sick is that it means I get to watch a lot of TV. Usually my days are too busy and I can barely keep up with what I have. But during this illness, I burned through two seasons of The Walking Dead and I have no idea if that’s a good show to watch or not when one is sick.

To celebrate the fact that November 15 is almost here I thought I’d post an excerpt from Love is Mortal. My plan is to add a bit more everyday until D day. Hope you like it!

Prologue

London, 1530

The air stank. The smell of unwashed flesh and burning candles. The smell of perfume and worn clothing. Marion loved a good party, but usually she just came for the food. She ran her finger down the Fey queen’s arm and watched as goose bumps rose on the woman’s flesh.

It’s a Jack Novella! And the reasoning is this: When I first wrote LID the beginning was different. It was Jack and his parents. What his life was like before Val and then what happened with Marion and how we wound up with Val and her dad.

Anyway, that was the beginning of the book since day one up until a few weeks before the book came out. But LID was Val’s book. So this beginning really didn’t fit in. As much as I wanted it to. But every time someone read it, they really liked it and kept asking if it was ever going to come out. And it is! I’m excited.

So there I was looking at Loretta Chase’s blog (I love, love, love her books and had the honor of meeting her at RT. There is a picture of me and her on my facebook page. I’m the one who was so overwhelmed I started to cry. Yes to the patheticness.) Anyway, so I was clicking through her links which led me to a post about what to do when asked to read someone’s manuscript. I’m going to post Tess Gerritson and Orson Scott Card’s responses to this question because…it’s reached that point.